Check-perforator



(No Model.)

F. .ZANDER- CHECK PERFORATOB..

10.553,889. Patented Peb. 4, 1896..

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ANDREW E.GRANAM.PMUI'0'LI'YHU WASHINGYDN DL UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK ZANDER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

CHECK-PERFORATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,889, dated February4, 1896.

Application filed J'nly 27, 1895. Serial No. 557,342. (No model.)

To LZZ whom 1125 may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK ZANDER, a citizen of the United States,residing in Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Perforators, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of checkperforators adapted to becarried in the pocket, for which I have an application now pending inthe United States Patent Office, filed June 3, 1895, Serial N o.551,524, in which the numerals are located on a series of pivoteddie-plates arranged side by side and secured pivotally by a single pinextending through a series of hinged joints. The hinged die-plates inperforators of this kind are, when in use, very liable to stick or holdonto the punches when closed and are then difficult to be operated bythe fingers. Springs have heretofore been used to open the dies,

but they are not to be depended upon in devices of this kind because thedies are still liable to stick together when closed over a check orpiece of paper. Consequently the same trouble comes up either withsprings or without them. Besides, springs would tend to hold the diesup, or some of them, when the device is required to be closed incondition to be put away, in the pocket, for instance.

The object of my present invention is to avoid these objections by meanswhich will be fully and clearly hereinafter described and claimed,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lrepresents a top view of my iinproved check-perforator, showing thedieplates closed. Fig. 2 also represents a top plan view showing all,except one, of the dieplates opened and thrown back. Fig. 3 is atransverse section showing the die-plates turned up by the openingdevice. Fig. 4 represents a transverse section showing the die* platesand opening device closed, a slip of paper through which the puncheshave passed having been placed between them.

Referring to the drawings in detail, l represents the lower die-plate inwhich the punchdies 2 are secured. The hinged die-plates 3 are allhinged side by side, as in my pending application above referred to, andsecured by a single pin 4; but as these parts are fully shown anddescribed in the application above mentioned a further description ofthem here is not required.

At each end of the lower die-plate is rig idly secured anupward-extending ear 5, and between these ears is a long narrow bar 6,movably secured by pivotal pins 7. These pivotal pins 7 being locatednear the rear side of the bar 6 will cause the front side of the same tomove upward when the handle 8 is turned up and will thus lift all thedie-plates 3 simultaneously, substantially as shown in Fig. 3, in whichcondition they are all loose and easily manipulated by the fingers.

When the die-plates 3 are closed, asin Fig. 4, they will lie together,as shown, and the device maybe slipped into a case of any wellknownconstruction adapted for the purpose, and put away, in the vest-pocket,for instance.

I claim as my invention- In a check-perforator, the combination of abase-plate carrying one portion of the perforating-dies, and a pluralityof hinged dieplates carrying the other corresponding coacting portionsof the perforating-dies, with a-.pivoted bar 6, located between thebase' and hinged die-plates and extending the whole length of thebase-plate, and ahandle for operating it, whereby all the hingeddieplates maybe opened simultaneously, substantially as described.

FRANK ZANDER. Witnesses:

J AMES SANGSTER, A. J. SANGSTER.

